Three separate issues:
Who is responsible for the Grimes foot injury?
My answer - don't care. Medical. Out of my area. Waddya think?
Prognosis?
Medically I have no idea. But we all know players like Grimey who have pleny of talent but can't get on the park. In footy terms he seems to me to be a player who may never make it on the park. Crucified. But there are others who do, just not as often as we'd like. That's where I think Dylan Grimes will fit in. He will not be a 200 gamer despite his obvious talent to make that club. Another fan said to me recently he'd play 93 games over ten years. I nodded.
The problem with the expression "soft-tissue injuries" is the use of the word "soft". Grimes is as hard as nails on the park. But he, like other very gifted players I don't care to name now, seems to naturally break under the stress of giving everything he can. Tearing his own hamstring off the bone going for a spoil? Whoa.
Outcome from my intuition? What I'd bet? Over the next five years Grimey will play 68 games. Three years will include revelations of his best, yet to be delivered, form. I sincerely hope that some are in finals. He's at least that good.
Worst case is more of what we've seen. Best is that he learns to manage the hammies and gets over the foot and there is nothing new. Then plays he 150 games over ten years. This IMO would be a miracle of justice.
Grimes is one of my top four or six favourite players at the club and, unfortunately, getting the rough end, fair in the jacksie, from the injury gods. I may be a bit biased.
Backline structural problems in 2013+.
Astbury is almost as bad as Grimes for injury and is treading water atm in the Magoos. Let's hope he comes good.
Lucky we pulled Chaplin. (Given the likelihood of the Grimes star-crossed does the Chaplin thing seem measured or pivotal now?)
Griffiths has not come up by a long way. And now 82kg and 188cm Batch plays #3 back for us. No Grimes, no Astbury, no Griffiths has hurt us a lot. When you plan you play percentages. None out of three is a massacre. Notice that Elton is playing CHB in the Magoos? We have to develop and/or recrruit another tall back by year's end. See why I post about playing Vickery at CHB, insanely? Elton may be playing there next year.
When Dylan Grimes comes back it has to be as a #4 back. A (naturally) light running tall who peels off from time to time. His body won't withstand anything more and we can more easily replace him in that role if he falls over.
It's now very unlikely he'll be the champion he might have been. Let him triumph less often in a lesser role.
Trade him? Blasphemy. This is a Richmond man. Call me old-fashioned; call yourself a Romantic - the small trumphs are the best. Small for Grimes.
Who is responsible for the Grimes foot injury?
My answer - don't care. Medical. Out of my area. Waddya think?
Prognosis?
Medically I have no idea. But we all know players like Grimey who have pleny of talent but can't get on the park. In footy terms he seems to me to be a player who may never make it on the park. Crucified. But there are others who do, just not as often as we'd like. That's where I think Dylan Grimes will fit in. He will not be a 200 gamer despite his obvious talent to make that club. Another fan said to me recently he'd play 93 games over ten years. I nodded.
The problem with the expression "soft-tissue injuries" is the use of the word "soft". Grimes is as hard as nails on the park. But he, like other very gifted players I don't care to name now, seems to naturally break under the stress of giving everything he can. Tearing his own hamstring off the bone going for a spoil? Whoa.
Outcome from my intuition? What I'd bet? Over the next five years Grimey will play 68 games. Three years will include revelations of his best, yet to be delivered, form. I sincerely hope that some are in finals. He's at least that good.
Worst case is more of what we've seen. Best is that he learns to manage the hammies and gets over the foot and there is nothing new. Then plays he 150 games over ten years. This IMO would be a miracle of justice.
Grimes is one of my top four or six favourite players at the club and, unfortunately, getting the rough end, fair in the jacksie, from the injury gods. I may be a bit biased.
Backline structural problems in 2013+.
Astbury is almost as bad as Grimes for injury and is treading water atm in the Magoos. Let's hope he comes good.
Lucky we pulled Chaplin. (Given the likelihood of the Grimes star-crossed does the Chaplin thing seem measured or pivotal now?)
Griffiths has not come up by a long way. And now 82kg and 188cm Batch plays #3 back for us. No Grimes, no Astbury, no Griffiths has hurt us a lot. When you plan you play percentages. None out of three is a massacre. Notice that Elton is playing CHB in the Magoos? We have to develop and/or recrruit another tall back by year's end. See why I post about playing Vickery at CHB, insanely? Elton may be playing there next year.
When Dylan Grimes comes back it has to be as a #4 back. A (naturally) light running tall who peels off from time to time. His body won't withstand anything more and we can more easily replace him in that role if he falls over.
It's now very unlikely he'll be the champion he might have been. Let him triumph less often in a lesser role.
Trade him? Blasphemy. This is a Richmond man. Call me old-fashioned; call yourself a Romantic - the small trumphs are the best. Small for Grimes.
